Cork-pulling device.



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APPLICATION FILED SBPT.28, 1907.

Patented Feb. 2,- 1909.

CHARLES 0. CALL, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

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- 'Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 2, 1909.

v Application filed. September 28, 1907 Serial No. 395,029.

To all whom 'it may concern 7 Be it known that 1, CHARLES 0. CALL, a citizen of the United States of America, and resident of Springfield, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cork-Pulling Devices, of which the following is a full, clear,and exact description. V V

This invention relates to improvements in a device for pulling corks out from the necks of bottles, of a class which comprise a point ed stem'for piercing the cork through from its upper to its lower end, and which stem carries at a lower portion thereof, and slightly above the pointed end thereof, a pivoted bar or dog adapted to be normally positioned longitudinally relatively to the stem, within a slot in the stem therefor, and after being carried with the stem through and beyond the lower end of the cork to be swung crosswise, with its opposite end portions extending beyond the sides of thestem for engagement against the cork for the extraction of the latter from the bottle upon an upward draft on the stem. And the invention consists in certain other subordinate features of construction and parts combined in the device substantially as hereinafter fully de-. scribed and set forth in the claims; and the objects and advantages of the invention will be hereinafter mentioned or rendered apparent.

In the accompanying drawings,Figure 1.

is a central vertical section through the cork pulling device with the parts thereof in normal position, and indicated as undergoing the action of being forced through a cork in the neck of a bottle. Fig. 2 is a view similar to Fig. 1, but showing thestern of the device as forced axially through the cork and with the operative parts in their changed positions preparatory to the pulling of the cork. Fig. 3 is a side view of the cork pulling device, and Fig. 4: is a plan view of the same in relation to a bottle neckhaving a cork therein.

Similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all of the views.

In the-drawings,Arepresents the stem or shank of the cork pulling device, the same v being made tubular for a greater portion of its length, provided with a solid, pointed, lower extremity a, having a transverse slot 1) side by side, throughits tubular. portion above and near the pointed extremity a, also having a transverse pulling handle d at its upper end and constructed with a vertical slot f through one side of its upper portion. A small bar, blocker dog B is at its middle pivoted within the through slot?) in the stem by a pivot pin or rivet g which passes through the center of the bar and has supporting engagement in the walls of the stem at the opposite sides of the slot 6. This bar Bat its edge at one side of the pivot is made with a shoulder h.

C represents a rod located and endwise movable within the tubular stem, the same having an angular operating member 2' which extends to the exterior of thestem through the said upper slot f; and the said stem is constructed -with a sidewise deflected and transversely reacting spring lower extremity j, the spring reaction thereof being towards the axial line of the device; and said extremity edgewise coacts with the said pivot bar.

The device, preparatory to using it for pulling a cork, has the rod C forced to or near the limit of its downward movement, asshown in Fig. 1, longitudinally alining the pivot bar with the stem. The stem with the bar thus ensconced therein may, because of the pointed extremity a, be readily forced centrally through the cork sufliciently'far to bring the pivot g a little ways below the lower end of the cork. Now by upwardly forcing the rod, which will automatically be done by the contacting of the angular exteriorly extending member 2' against the top of the cork so as to bring the lower deflected end of the rod in the least degree above theaxis of the pivot, the spring reaction of the deflected extremity in an inward direction exerts a leverage action on the pivot barresulting in the throwing of the same towards a position at right angles to its normal position. This bar then on the upward drawing of the stem through means of the cross handle 03 becomes interlocked the extraction of the cork from. the bottle neck.

It will be noticed that in the position ofthe bar, Fig. 2, a shoulder h is near the point of the deflected spring extremity of the rod. The shouldered formation and the coaction therewith of the stem having its lower extremity of the character mentioned, faciliates in restoring the pivot bar to its ensconced condition, an occasiontherefor may arise. It will be explained in this connection that a person might improperly force the pointed stem through a cork so far to one side that when the pivot bar were thrown to its transverse relation to the stem it might interlock under the. shouldered neck of the bottle, rendering it impossible to pull out the cork or withdraw the implement; but it will be apparent that in such an event the stem may be forced slightly further inwardly so as to carry the bar clear from the cork and then by the manipulation of the red the cross bar would be restored to its alined normal position of alinement with the slot 6, enabling one hand to easily withdraw the device from its engagement through the cork.

By the provision of a cork pulling device substantially such as described, and made of a comparatively small size, quite large and firmly set corks may be pulled with certainty, and after a cork may have been pierced by the bottle stem, and pulled from the bottle and the stem drawn out centrally from the pierced cork, the latter by reason of the elastic character thereof will fill or close the comparatively small axial hole made, thereby leaving the cork more available for continued use than would be the case were the same subjected to the action of a spiral cork screw.

While I regard the provision of the shoulder h at one edge of the pivot bar desirable, and preferably to be employed, such formation is not to be understood as absolutely essential for the device may be operatively constructed in the absence thereof; and I may make further minor changes, or de partures from the details of construction hereinabove particularly referred to and shown in the drawings without departing from my present invention or sacrificing the advantages thereof.

I claim 1. A cork puller composed of a stem formed tubular for av portion of its length, a pointed end on said stem with a transverse slot through the stem, at bar pivoted within said slot, a rod slidable in said tubular part of the stem and a thin spring earried by the inner end of said rod, said spring being curved and having its free end located to one side of said rod, the free end of said spring bearing on one side of said bar at a point above the pivot of said bar when said bar is in operative position and engaging the bar at a point approximately in horizontal alinement with and on one side of the pivot when said bar is in inoperative position.

2. A cork puller composed of a stem formed tubular for a portion of its length, a pointed end on said stem with a transverse slot through the stem, a bar pivoted in said slot, a rod slidable in said tubular part of the stem, said stem having a side opening leading into said tubular part thereof, a shoulder on one side of said bar at a point adjacent the pivot of said bar, and a rod sliding in said tubular part of the stern, and having its outer end turned at right, angles and extending through said side opening and having its inner end provided with a thin curved spring which engages said shoulder of the bar and rides on one side of the bar to positively move the latter to operative and inoperative positions.

Signed by me at Springfield, Mass, in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES C. Ckl'ill.

Witnesses NELLIE A.DwIc1-1T, LUCIA D. DWIGHT. 

